Simon Mainwaring

Best-selling Author, Podcaster, Business Futurist and CEO of We First

Simon Mainwaring is founder/CEO of We First, an award-winning, strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for today’s top purpose-driven brands. He was a Real Leaders’ Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World in 2020 and his company, We First, was a Real Leaders’ Top 100 Impact Companies in the US for 2021 and 2019, as well as a B Corp ‘Best For the World’ Honoree. Simon was a Featured Expert and Jury member for the Sustainable Development Goals at the Cannes Lions Festival in 2021. Simon’s first book, We First was a New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. He hosts the Lead With We podcast and writes the influential ‘Purpose At Work’ column in Forbes. His new book Lead With We is available November 2021.

  • Simon Mainwaring Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

  • Simon Mainwaring Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    California, USA

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Lead With We: How Companies Thrive in Uncertain Times

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You can grow your business even during an unprecedented time of uncertainty. In fact, your growth, relevance, and long-term prosperity can increase depending on how you frame your role in the world and execute against it. The starting point is to ‘Lead With We’ which transforms limiting mindsets and habits into new beliefs and behaviors that leverage the power of We to ensure all stakeholders build your business. It’s a new vision for leadership, culture, marketing, and impact that empowers your business to thrive in today’s market and course-correct our future. In this presentation, attendees will learn:

1. How to accelerate business growth while solving today’s most pressing challenges.
2. How to drive fresh relevance and resonance with employees and customers.
3. How to leverage rising market forces to compound your growth and impact.

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How Purpose Becomes a Force Multiplier for Your Business

How do you define, integrate, and activate your purpose across your business to unlock the greatest business value? It’s this question that every company must answer as business is called on to not only compete but also solve connected and ...

How do you define, integrate, and activate your purpose across your business to unlock the greatest business value? It’s this question that every company must answer as business is called on to not only compete but also solve connected and growing crises. What most companies don’t know, however, is how to position and leverage your purpose so that it drives a movement that becomes a force multiplier for your business. This requires new mindsets, strategies, and tactics that ensure you’ll capture the full value of being a purposeful company in terms of company reputation, culture, sales, and impact. In this presentation, attendees will learn:

1. How to define and activate your purpose in ways that propel business growth.
2. Strategies and tactics to launch, build and scale a purpose-led movement.
3. Critical movement-making mistakes to avoid and insights to leverage.

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The Future of Work: How to Ignite an Irresistible Company Culture

If your company is to compete and lead, you need new ways of working especially given the complexity of company culture and employees’ expectations today. Doing so requires a radically new approach to work that is fundamentally co-creative...

If your company is to compete and lead, you need new ways of working especially given the complexity of company culture and employees’ expectations today. Doing so requires a radically new approach to work that is fundamentally co-creative and fortified by beliefs and behaviors that effortlessly straddle and strengthen office and remote work. The goal is to create a culture that people actively want to be a part of because it improves their lives which then drives productivity, growth, and competitive advantage. In this presentation, attendees will learn:

1. How to frame, build, and strengthen a co-creative and productive culture.
2. The building blocks of office, hybrid, and remote cultures that outperform.
3. Strategies and tools to reset and enhance ways of working and the employee experience.

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The ESG Advantage: Strategy & Storytelling That Delivers Business Value

New regulations and rising stakeholder expectations have put every company on notice for their ESG commitments. Yet complexity and competition leave many companies feeling confused, stalled, or paralyzed. The key is to build the right strategic ...

New regulations and rising stakeholder expectations have put every company on notice for their ESG commitments. Yet complexity and competition leave many companies feeling confused, stalled, or paralyzed. The key is to build the right strategic architecture and leverage intentional storytelling that builds a competitive advantage that translates to business growth. So that ESG commitments, when planned and executed correctly, become sustained business drivers while creating critical impact. In this presentation, attendees will learn:

1. How to build a clear and actionable ESG strategy across enterprises, brands, and markets.
2. How to avoid pitfalls from greenwashing to green hushing.
3. How to tell ESG impact stories in ways that deliver business value.

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How to Future-proof Your Company for A Climate-Challenged World

The climate crisis is transforming business and the role it plays in the world. How your company responds will determine its relevance to the future and how your stakeholders support you. The time to reimagine and reengineer your leadership, ...

The climate crisis is transforming business and the role it plays in the world. How your company responds will determine its relevance to the future and how your stakeholders support you. The time to reimagine and reengineer your leadership, culture, and marketing is now. For those embracing this challenge, the growth, innovation, and impact opportunities are unlimited, especially as market forces increasingly reward companies for doing so. It’s both the challenge and opportunity of our lifetimes and the standout imperative for business.

In this presentation, attendees will learn:

1. How to position and differentiate your company in the crowded climate dialogue.
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About Keynote Speaker Simon Mainwaring

Simon Mainwaring is the founder and CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy that accelerates growth and impact for purpose-driven brands.

His first book, We First, is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestseller. It was named an Amazon Top Ten Business Book, 800CEORead Top Five Marketing Book, strategy+business named it the Best Business Marketing Book of the Year, and Sustainable Brands listed We First as one of their Top Sustainability Books of the decade. It has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean.

Simon’s new book, Lead With We, is a Wall Street Journal bestseller, AXIOM Gold Medal Winner, McKinsey Top Workplace Culture bestseller, Forbes #2 Best Business Book of the Year, Official Nominee for The Next Big Idea, International Business Book of the Year finalist, and American Book Fest Best Books of 2022 finalist.

Simon is a sought after international speaker with engagements including the Cannes International Advertising Festival, Royal Society of Arts, SXSW, TEDxSF, NAB, Promax International, Conscious Capitalism, Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson, World 50, Ivy, CECP, Sustainable Brands, SOCAP, 3BL, Social Good Summit, National Speakers Association, 1440 Multiversity, National Press Club, The Penn Club of New York, and the United Nations Foundation. He has delivered keynotes at Google, Coca-Cola, General Motors, VF, Samsung, VSP Global, Toyota, SAP, Gucci, JP Morgan Chase, Timberland, VW Group, the NHL, and Patagonia. He has presented at the Harvard Business School Association, Wharton Daily, UCLA, USC, University of Oregon, and University of Chicago.

Simon was named a Thinkers360 Top 50 Thought Leaders & Influencers for Climate Change, a Real Leaders ‘Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World’, a Top 5 Marketing Speaker by speaking.com for 5 years in a row, and appeared on the cover of the National Speaker’s Magazine. He has been featured in BBC World News, Bloomberg Beta, Cheddar TV, CNBC, NPR, The Guardian, Authority Magazine, Leader to Leader, Advertising Age, Apple News, Fortune, Inc., Management Today Magazine, Success, Entrepreneur, AMA, Forbes, and Fast Company. He hosts the influential business podcast, Lead With We (top 1% of podcasts globally) and is a prolific columnist for the Forbes.com CMO Network.

Testimonials

Simon’s presentation was relevant and insightful into how brands think and work to get their message across to consumers. He had great real world examples which the audience was able to relate to. It was easy to see how these examples applied to our business and clients, and how we could use them to improve the value we offer. Attendees found it to be informative, clear, concise, and engaging, with many considering his presentation to be one of the highlights of the off-site

Viacom, Inc.

 

I can’t express how thrilled we are about your work with our leadership team today. The buzz is still going… Community service IS about the bottom line… Support the mission, tell your story, empower the people: just a few buzz phrases I am hearing. I appreciate your time and thoughtful presentation and look forward to continuing this great work.

Toyota Financial Services

 

It takes a strong message to catch the attention of our customers, who are some of the most dynamic innovators and practitioners of digital strategy, marketing and media. Simon succeeded admirably, bringing the passion of his vision of “We First” capitalism to engaging and capturing the loyalty and attention of new customer who have expectations about what the organizations and brands in his/her life can do for them – on their time and terms. Simon went right to the heart of the matter in his keynote at our first customer conference, Engage 2014, and left all of us looking for more of his wisdom and insights.

Acquia

 

Simon is an incredible public speaker and a master at his craft. He understands the intersection between purpose, people, and profit powered by years of experience working with some of the most purpose-driven brands. His urgency for driving positive change in this world is palpable.

Staci E.

Glassdoor

The CEO Summit was awesome and Simon was brilliant! He was such an absolute pleasure to work with and get to know. Our attendees were inspired and still buzzing.

Lisa J.

Learning Experience Specialist of Better Design

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